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Prince-elector of Brandenburg

Brandenburg-Prussia
Brandenburg-Preußen
Personal union between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Duchy of Prussia
1618–1701
Flag
Coat of arms of Brandenburg
Coat of arms of Ducal Prussia
Coat of arms of Ducal Prussia
Brandenburg-Prussia within the Holy Roman Empire (1618)
Capital Berlin and Königsberg
Government Feudal monarchies in personal union
Elector-Duke
 •  1618–1619 John Sigismund
 •  1619–1640 George William
 •  1640–1688 Frederick William
 •  1688–1701 Frederick III (Frederick I)
Historical era Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
 •  Personal union August 27, 1618
 •  Prussian independence September 19, 1657
 •  Elevation to kingdom January 18, 1701
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Coat of arms of Brandenburg Margraviate of Brandenburg
Coat of arms of Cleves Duchy of Cleves
Coat of arms of Mark County of Mark
Coat of arms of Ravensberg County of Ravensberg
Duchy of Prussia
Coat of arms of Minden Bishopric of Minden
Coat of arms of Halberstadt Bishopric of Halberstadt
Coat of arms of Pomerania Duchy of Pomerania
Coat of arms of Magdeburg Archbishopric of Magdeburg
Lauenburg and Bütow Land
Draheim
Kingdom of Prussia
Today part of  Germany
 Lithuania
 Netherlands
 Poland
 Russia
Arms of Brandenburg.svg
Arms of East Prussia.svg

History of Brandenburg and Prussia
Northern March
pre–12th century
Old Prussians
pre–13th century
Margraviate of Brandenburg
1157–1618 (1806)
Teutonic Order
1224–1525
Duchy of Prussia
1525–1618
Royal (Polish) Prussia
1466–1772
Brandenburg-Prussia
1618–1701
Kingdom in Prussia
1701–1772
Kingdom of Prussia
1772–1918
Free State of Prussia
1918–1947
Klaipėda Region
(Lithuania)
1920–1939 / 1945–present
Brandenburg
(Germany)
1947–1952 / 1990–present
Recovered Territories
(Poland)
1918/1945–present
Kaliningrad Oblast
(Russia)
1945–present

Brandenburg-Prussia (German: Brandenburg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the Early Modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701. Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohenzollern intermarried with the branch ruling the Duchy of Prussia, and secured succession upon the latter's extinction in the male line in 1618. Another consequence of the intermarriage was the incorporation of the lower Rhenish principalities of Cleves, Mark and Ravensberg after the Treaty of Xanten in 1614.

The Thirty Years' War (1618–48) was especially devastating. The Elector changed sides three times, and as a result Protestant and Catholic armies swept the land back and forth, killing, burning, seizing men and taking the food supplies. Upwards of half the population was killed or dislocated. Berlin and the other major cities were in ruins, and recovery took decades. By the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648, Brandenburg gained Minden and Halberstadt, also the succession in Farther Pomerania (incorporated in 1653) and the Duchy of Magdeburg (incorporated in 1680). With the Treaty of Bromberg (1657), concluded during the Second Northern War, the electors were freed of Polish vassalage for the Duchy of Prussia and gained Lauenburg–Bütow and Draheim. The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679) expanded Brandenburgian Pomerania to the lower Oder.


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